Hat-fastener.



No. 670,50I. Patented Mar. 26, I901.

F. STAUFENBERGER.

HAT FASTENER.

(Application filed Oct. 13,1900.)

(No Model.)

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FREDERICK STAUFENBERGER, OF IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

HAT'- FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,501, dated March 26,1901. Application filed October 18, 1900. serial No. 32,910. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK STAUFEN- BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Irviugton, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has for its principal object to provide a novel means for securing an ordinary hat-pin to a hat, whereby the pin may be used in the same manner as, heretofore, but will not injure the hat, being at all times secured thereto, and thereby avoiding the annoyance of the hat-pin being out of place when wanted or becoming lost, and, furthermore, providing an effective and at thesame time a verysimple means for operatively retaining one or more hat-pins in position in the body of the hat, whether the hat is being worn by a person or whether it has been removed from the head.

A further object of this invention is to provide a novelcons'truction of hat-fastener for ladies hats to avoid the use of the ordinary stick-pin, which is so ruinous to the body of the hat, whether of felt, straw, or other material, since that portion of the hat through which the pin is stuck soon becomes full of pin-holes, thereby rendering the hat-body unsightly and very often destroying its usefulness.

A further object of this invention is to provide a novel hat-pin fastener combining with the pin a fastening-plate which is provided with ascrew-threaded tubular shank through which the pin can be passed when said shank is secured in the body of the hat, and the said shank being provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or saw-cut whereby the said shank is expansible and contractible and can be clamped in place on the shank or body of the hat-pin by means of a screw collar or nut, so as to firmlyretain or hold the hat-pin in its adjusted position in the body Of-hair on the head of the wearer of the hat.

of the arrows in said Fig. 5.

My invention therefore consists in the novel construction of hat-pin fastener to be fully described in the accompanying specification, and,furthermore, this invention consists in the several novel arrangements and combinations of the various parts, as well as in the details of the construction thereof, all of which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim, which'form a part of the specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat with a portion thereof represented broken away and shown in vertical section, said view also illustrating in elevation the application thereto of my novel construction of hat-pin fastener. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of one form of the hat-pin fastener and a portion of the hat-body with the pin in position in the fastener, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same looking in the direction of the arrow ac in said Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side view of another form of hat-pin fastener embodying the principles of my present invention and portions of a hat-pin, the portions of the hat-body to which the fastener is attached being represented in vertical section. 'tudinal vertical section of the several parts represented in said Fig. 4, except the'screwthreaded shank of the fastening-plate and the pin portions, both of which are represent- Fig. 5 is a longied in side elevation. Fig. 6 is an end view of the several parts represented in said Fig. 5 looking in the direction of the arrow y in said figure, and Fig. 7 is a similar view of the said parts when looking in the direction view of the hat-pin fastener and a horizontal section of a portion of the hat-body in which the said parts are secured; and Fig. 9 is a longitudinal vertical section of the several parts, said section being taken on line 9 9 in Fig. 7 and the hat-pin'being represented in the position in which it is placed when inserted in the parts of the hat-pin fastener before the parts are secured in positionin the body of the hat. Figs. 10 and 11 are two views of a hat-pin fastener of another modified form of construction, but still embodying the leading features of this invention;

Fig. 8 is a top and Fig. 1.2 is a vertical section of the same, taken on line 12 12 in said Fig. 11.

Similar letters of reference are employed in all of the said above-described views to indicate corresponding parts.

In the said figures of the drawings, 1) indicates the hat-body, as in Fig. l, or a portion thereof, as in the other figures of the drawings, and b 'epresents the sweat-band of the hat.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a indicates the hat-pin,which is provided at the one end thereof with a head a, which may be deiachably secured to the screw-threaded portion a of the pin, as indicated in Fig. 2, or may be permanently fixed on the end of the pin; as in the constructions represented in Figs. 4, 5, 8, and 9. The opposite end of the pin is pointed and is provided with a spear-shaped or other suitablyshaped enlargement The securing or retaining plate is indicated by the reference-letter c, said plate being provided with a tubular shank c, which is surrounded on its outer cylindrical surface with a screw-thread, substantially as illustrated. This securing or retaining plate is secured in position in the hat-body Z) and the sweat-baud b of the hat by having said screw-threaded shank c forced through the parts I) and b of the hat-body, as shown, and said retainingplate a is held in place by means of a disk or washer 0 having a shank 0 provided with a screw-threaded hole 0 for fitting said disk or washer c on said screw-threaded shank c and by screwing it up on said shank causing the plate 0 and the disk c to tightly embrace the portions of the hat-body between them.

To arrange the pin a slidably in the tubular portion of the shank c of the retaining-plate c, all that is necessary is to remove the head or ornament a from the screw portion a of said pin a and inserting said end of the pin into and through the hole 0 in thedisk c and through the tubular portion of the screwthreaded shank c, and then by screwing the head or ornament a once more in position on the screw end of the pin a the latter will be secured in its operative position in the side of the hat-body and the enlarged end a of the pin will prevent the loss of said pin from the hat-body, as will be clearly evident. The manner of using the pin a when thus secured in place in the hat-body is the same as the ordinary hat-pin, and further explanation will therefore not be necessary.

In the constructions represented in Figs. 4 to 9, inclusive, I have represented a modified form of hat-pin fastener, with which may be employed any ordinary form of hat-pin provided with either a fixed or a detachable head, the hat-pin being capable of removal from the fastening means and from the body of the hat, but the said fastening means being permanently secured to the body of the hat. In this construction the retaining disk or plate 0 is provided with a radially-extending slot or opening 0 and the screw-threaded shank c of said retaining plate or disk 0 is provided with an axial slot or opening 0 which is in alinemen t with the radiallyextending slot or opening 0 in the plate or disk 0. In this form of hat-pin fastener the enlargement (t of the pin is narrower across its thickest part than the width of the slot or opening c in the re taining disk or plate 0. This enables the wearer of the hat to which the retaining-plate c is fastened by means of the disk or washer 0 in the manner to be presently described, to pass the enlarged end portion of the pin (6 into and through the slot 0 of the disk or plate 0 and by forcing the pointed end of the pin a through the material of the body of the hat to arrange the main body portion of the pin directly over the longitudinally-arranged slot or opening 0 in the fastening-disk c, substantially as represented in Fig. 9 of the drawings. When the pin (t has thus been arranged, its shank is forced down into the said longitudinally-extending slot 0 and into the central tubular portion of the screw-threaded shank c of the retaining-plate c, as will be clearly seen from an inspection of Figs. 4', 5, and 6 of the drawings. The screw disk or washer c is then screwed directly upon the screw-shank c of the retaining-plate c, where by the parts are seen red in their positions on opposite sides of the body portion of the hat, with the shank of the pin a slidably arranged in the hat-pin fastener for its proper arrangement in the hair of the wearer of the hat and without danger of the displacement or loss of the hat-pin. The said screw-disk or washer c has the internal diameter of its screwthreaded opening 0 made slightly smaller than the maximum diameter of .the widest part of the screw-threaded shank c of the plate 0, and when it is screwed upon the screw-shank c of the retaining-plate c the holding or clamping parts 0 and 0 adjacent to the slot 0 are brought or clamped directly against the cylindrical shank of the pin a, whereby the latter can be rigidly held in its adjusted position in the hat-body after the two plates 0 and c are tightly screwed against the opposite surfaces of the body of the hat, as will be clearly evident.

In Figs. 10, 11, and 12 I have illustrated another modified form of hat-pin fastener in which the said retaining-plate c is provided with a tubular shank 0 in which I have dispensed with the use of the screw thread, but which is provided in lieu of the same with a small stud or post 0. In this construction the disk (3 is also provided with a tubular shank 0 which is provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or opening 0 and a laterally-extending slot portion 0 said two slots or open portions being in communication with each other, as shown. When the shank c is fitted over the shank 0 as represented in Fig. 9, with the pin (1 arranged in the tubular shanks, then the pin or stud 0 can be made to first enter the slot 0 and 'vention.

by a slight turn of the disk 0 on the pin a the said stud c is made to enter the slot or open portion 0 which suitably holds or locks the several plates or disks in their operative positions on opposite sides of the body of the hat, as will be clearly understood, and the pin a is slidably retained Without the possibility of its loss from the hat.

From an inspection of the several figures of the drawings it will be seen that the hole or perforation in the disk or washer c is made larger than the maximum thickness of the portion a of. the pin, which permits these-id disk or washer c to be arranged over the pin and screwed or otherwise fastened upon the shank of the retaining disk or plate a, in which the tubular portion is smaller to prevent the withdrawal of the pin I am aware that changes may be made in the various arrangements and combinations of the parts of the hat-pin fastener without departing from the scope of my present in- Hence I do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the parts as herein described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of said parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is r 1. In a hat-fastener, the combination, with a retaining-plate adapted to be arranged on one side of a hat-body, and having a slotted pin-receiving portion, of a hat-pin adapted to be arranged in said pin-receiving portion, means connected with said plate constructed and arranged to permit the hat-pin to be arranged within or to be lifted from said pinreceiving portion, and means for preventing the withdrawal of said pin when arranged in said pin-receiving portion, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a hat-fastener, the combination, with a retaining-plate provided with a radially-extending slot or opening, and a tubular shank connected with said retaining-plate and provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or opening, of a hat-pin in said tubular shank, and a second disk or plate provided with a centrally-disposed hole or perforation adapted to be arranged on said tubular and slotted 3. In a hat-fastener, the combination, with a retaining-plate provided with a radially-extending slot or opening, and a tubular shank connected with said retaining-plate and provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or opening, of a hat-pin in said tubular shank, a. second disk or plate provided with a centrally-disposed hole or perforation adapted to be arranged on said tubular and slotted shank of said retaining-plate, a head and an enlarged end portion at the respective ends of said pin, arranged to prevent the with drawal of said pin, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a hat-fastener, the combination, with a retaining-plate provided with a radial1y-ex tending slot or opening, a tubular shank connected with said retaining-plate,'provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or opening, and an external screw-thread, of a hatpin in said tubular shank, and a second disk or plate provided with a centrally-disposed and screw-threaded hole or perforation adapted to be screwed upon said screw-threaded and slotted shank of the retaining-plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

5. -In a hat-fastener, the combination, with a retaining-plate provided with a radially-extending slot or opening, atubular shank connected with said retaining-plate, provided with a longitudinally-extending slot or opening, and an external screw-thread, of a hatpin in said tubular shank, a second disk or plate provided with a centrally-disposed and screw-threaded hole or perforation adapted to be screwed upon said screw-threaded and slotted shank of the retaining-plate, and a head and enlarged end portion at the respective ends of said pin, arranged to prevent the withdrawal of said pin, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of October, 1900.

FREDERICK STAUFENBERGER.

Witnesses:

FREDK. O. FRAENTZEL, GEO. D. RICHARDS. 

